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Sen Warren urging lame duck session to urgently confirm President Biden's court picks
the incoming administration won't be able to overturn these 'for life' appointments
the incoming administration won't be able to overturn these 'for life' appointments
“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer must use every minute of the end-of-year legislative session to confirm federal judges and key regulators — none of whom can be removed by the next President,” Warren wrote in a Thursday opinion piece.
Progressive judicial advocacy groups, similarly, are pressing Schumer to step on the gas and confirm as many of Biden’s judges as possible. If that means using the lame duck to keep the Senate in session on Fridays, when it is usually out, or on the weekends, so be it.
“Given the outcome of the election, the reality is that we now have a rapidly closing window to confirm well-qualified, fair-minded judges who will protect our rights and serve as one of the last guardrails in upholding our nation’s laws and the Constitution,” Maggie Jo Buchanan, managing director of Demand Justice, said in a Thursday statement.